St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

6th class were very lucky to have Mrs. Doyle teaching them for the past few weeks. We took part in fantastic lessons and learned so much! We studied themes such as sustainability and the environment, autumn and our local area and took part in such fun, interactive Gaeilge lessons! Gaeilge! Report Writing!Static electricity in action!Learning how to sew! We also took part in some great debates, learned how to sew and presented reports we drafted to the whole class. Thank you so much to Mrs. Doyle, we hope you can come back to visit us soon! Painting! Artwork displayed!Hallowe’en!Teamwork!Thank... 

We had a great time celebrating Maths Week 2022 in 6th class and took parts in lots of fun activities! We thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Maths Week Mini Quiz with Franz Schlindwein, on Zoom. There were lots of interesting questions and we practised the day before with some fun brain teasers – see if you can have a go here: Do you know the answers? Problem solving skills in practise! Then we took part in a Maths trail in the school and yard areas, that involved putting our Maths skills to the test. We split into groups and followed the instructions as accurately... 

Junior Infants loved taking part in Maths week, along with all other classes in the school. We started the week with some number runs and maths games. We got a chance with a break in the weather to do some chalk drawings in the yard, practising our shapes and numbers. We also got to incorporate some IT into our numeracy lessons. We had great fun using the interactive whiteboard for maths games, try out some of the numeracy apps on the class tablets and even got to do some programming using the school Beebots!  

We have been loving #mathweek on third class! We have been very busy doing some fun activities. We did a STEM experiment and linked in with maths week. This experiment was the water cycle in a bottle. We used capacity to measure the amount of water in the bottle. We made some spooky potions and measured how much liquid was in each potion! We watched maths week t.v and learned some really cool tricks. Dr. Ken Farquhar showed us the maths behind juggling which was really cool. We did some cool riddles on the board together. Can you figure this one out?  

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In fifth class, we have been taking part in some fun maths activities for maths week! We were using our problem solving skills to solve shape patterns! We worked together to continue the patterns! We looked at 2D shapes and tessellation. We made some spooky Halloween 2D shape tessellation art! We also made 2D shape monsters! We are looking forward to more maths activities this week!  

Fourth Class started Maths Week by making Halloween potions from the ‘Witches Den’. Have a look at the creepy potions we made: We then moved onto using some Math Week problems. Here is how we solved some of them: Finally we decided on a fun way to explore the lines and angles we were learning about during Maths Week. Here’s how we did it: We are really enjoying Maths Week and are looking forward to other activities to come later in the week!  

We have had a busy start to the year in 6th and have been reading a new novel, ‘Tom Crean’. We are thoroughly enjoying the story about the brave and heroic Antarctic explorer, who hails from Annascaul in Co. Kerry. We recommend that everyone reads this book as it is truly inspiring and at times, unbelievable! Tom Crean Learning about Antarctica has been extremely interesting and we have had many questions about the Earth’s least – populated and coldest continent. Using our atlases we have researched the places that Tom Crean visited on his multiple expeditions... 

Senior Infants have had a great first month back! They have been very busy. Have a look below to see what we have been up to. Here are our first day in Senior Infants pictures, we’re already excited to compare them when its our last day and see how much we’ve grown over the year! This month’s Aistear theme was ‘The Home’. We were learning a lot about our homes, different types of home and discussing all about the inside of our houses and the different rooms. In the roleplay area we played house, where there was a kitchen that we cooked for our family and...